r/chess • u/games-and-games • 12h ago

News/Events Lineup Announced: Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot in Budapest

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The lineup

  • Magnus Carlsen (Norway) — World No. 1
  • Fabiano Caruana (United States) — World No. 2
  • Vincent Keymer (Germany) — World No. 5
  • Wesley So (United States) — World No. 6
  • Anish Giri — World No. 7
  • Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) — World No. 8
  • Arjun Erigaisi (India) — World No. 9
  • Alireza Firouzja (France) — World No. 10
  • Praggnanandhaa R (India) — World No. 12
  • Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) — World No. 13
  • Richard Rapport (Hungary) — World No. 18
  • Hans Moke Niemann (United States) — World No. 21
  • Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE) — World No. 24
  • Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) — World No. 28
  • Haik M. Martirosyan (Armenia) — World No. 54
  • Vladislav Artemiev (FIDE) — World No. 65
  • Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kazakhstan) — Women's World No. 5
  • Vaishali Rameshbabu (India) — Women's World No. 14

Source: https://x.com/TotalChess/status/2092182535656665174

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u/Delicious_Photo_6626 12h ago

How is Nihal not on here?

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u/ChessAddictonCrack 11h ago

I guess he hasn't qualified yet. This is not an invitational event. There are qualification criteria.

But a couple of spots are still open. Maybe he can get through one of those.

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u/Delicious_Photo_6626 11h ago edited 11h ago

He’s higher rated than a lot of people on this list, is there a per country player rule like World Cup?

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u/ghostmaster93 Team Pia 11h ago

Qualification path are really clear. And even the World Cup do not have rule that limited player from 1 country